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Xoul City
12+ albums
commonr and bnative tounges90s Rnbblack thought
about
Three friends who share the common bonds of music, culture, and being young black men in America, have come together to form the group Xoul City. Their debut album, The Spirit of Soul City, was created in light of each members' journey creatively and spiritually over the past 6 years amidst a polarizing religious, political and social climate. Drawing upon artistic influences that range from Mos Def and Talib Kweli to Native Tounges, to Little Brother to Sho Baraka, The Spirit of Soul City showcases their unique gifts as emcees, poets, and producers. Noble Vessel, Preppy, and SaeLah have put together a project poised to penetrate the minds and hearts of the culture. “I stumbled across an article about a story of a town development in North Carolina, planned by attorney and civil rights activist Floyd McKissick, and it was called ‘Soul City.’ It was planned to be an integrated suburban community built and managed by black people with dreams of it becoming a southern utopia. He foresaw a place where there would be no prejudice or poverty or slums…but the development lost the funding it initially acquired, McKissick got caught up in controversy, and many of the supporters slowly parted ways and the dream of a city that could escape the horrors of racism in America ended…and then it hit me: this was a city built on the foundation of man, but only what’s done in Christ will last. And with that, I thought of how we as Christians, specifically black American Christians, long for t
